Dr Luca Peretti's current research project investigates cultural exchanges between Italy and the Third World at the peak of the anticolonial era (late 1950s-early 1970s). It focuses on cinema alongside other cultural forms and media practices, such as photography, exhibitions, television. Luca is also completing a previous - and related - project (which was awarded a WIRL-COFUND Fellowship) on collaborative works between Italians and Algerians, including Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966). Previously he co-edited a volume on terrorism and cinema (in Italian, Postmedia books) and one on Pier Pasolini Pasolini (Bloomsbury Academics). His work has appeared in, among others, Senses of Cinema, The Italianist: Film Issue, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Historical Materialism, Comunicazioni Sociali, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. He is the managing editor of the journals Zapruder World and Cinema e Storia, in the editorial board of L’Avventura and Storiografia, and in the editorial staff of the cultural blog il lavoro culturale and the media outlet DinamoPress. Luca wrote and coproduced the film Mister Wonderland (dir. Valerio Ciriaci, 2019). He collaborates with newspapers and magazines.
